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The Season after Pentecost

We are now in the Season of Pentecost? To learn more about this unique season and how you and your family can celebrate it, click here.

The Rt. Rev. Gary Lillibridge's 104th Diocesan Council Address

The 104th Episcopal Diocesan Council was held in San Antonio, TX on February 21-23, 2008. For a PDF document of the Bishop's address, click here. For Council Summary, sermons & videos, click here.

 The Anglican Covenant - Second Draft January 2008

The design group charged with producing an Anglican Covenant has published its second draft which now goes to the Lambeth Conference in July 2008. The current draft - known as the St Andrew's Draft and available here – put the pdf link in here -- will now be offered for reflection in the Communion at large, and in particular by the Lambeth Conference, which has been convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury to meet in his see City of Canterbury, England, between July 16 and August 3 of this year. The draft is accompanied by a number of supporting documents, including a brief commentary which outlines the thinking of the CDG on some of the issues considered, and which also gives responses to some of the specific suggestions and criticisms made to them. It also includes a tentative draft of a procedural appendix, the status of which is set out in the commentary. Background on the Anglican Covenant and supporting documents are available at http://www.aco.org/commission/covenant/index.cfm

To view the Second Draft/St. Andrew's Document (PDF), click here.

Archbishop of Canterbury Advent Message - December 2007 

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Advent message to the primates about the current situation of the church and expectations for the 2008 Lambeth Conference. For the message, click here.

Archbishop of Canterbury Summary - November 2007 

The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury has released a summary of the responses from the Anglican Communion primates and the Anglican Consultative Council members to the report of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and the ACC following their meeting with the Episcopal Church House of Bishops in New Orleans in September. For the report, click here.